Re: Importing two modules of same name

From	dieter <dieter@handshake.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Importing two modules of same name
Date	2016-02-10 08:54 +0100
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Carl Meyer <carl@oddbird.net> writes:
> ...
> If you omit the future-import in Python 2.7, `import config` will import
> the neighboring app/config.py by default, and there is no way to import
> the top-level config.py.

There is the "__import__" builtin function which allows to specify
the "parent package" indirectly via its "globals" parameter. This
way, you can import the "top-level" config (passing an empty "globals").

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